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Children's & Young Adult Literature

ADL’s online bibliography of recommended children’s and young adult books about bias, bullying, diversity and social justice.

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Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued

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Nicky & Vera
July 18, 2022
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Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank

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Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank
July 18, 2022
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The Assignment

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The Assignment
Would you defend the indefensible? That's what high school seniors Logan March and Cade Crawford are asked to do when a favorite teacher instructs a group of students to argue for the Final Solution--the Nazi plan for the genocide of the Jewish people.
May 03, 2021
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Hold On to Your Music

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Hold On to Your Music
In pre-World War II Vienna, Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who dreamed of becoming a concert pianist. But when enemy forces threatened the city—particularly the Jewish people that lived there—Lisa's parents were forced to make a difficult decision.
March 29, 2021
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Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place

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Behind the Bookcase: Miep Gies, Anne Frank, and the Hiding Place
Anne Frank’s diary is a gift to the world because of Miep Gies. One of the protectors of the Frank family, Miep recovered the diary after the family was discovered by Nazis, and then returned it to Otto Frank after World War II.
October 13, 2020
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Refugee

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Refugee book cover
Josef, Isabel and Mahmoud all go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. Although they are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections tie their stories together in the end. (Ages 9-12)
September 20, 2018
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The Freedom Writers Diary

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English teacher, Erin Gruwell, changes the lives and perspectives of 150 “at-risk” students through helping them draw parallels in books such as Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, to their own lives.
July 16, 2015
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The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

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Holocaust survivor Krystyna Chiger details her early years, largely spent hiding from Nazi and Ukrainian persecution, including the fourteen months she spent with her family in underground sewers.
July 16, 2015
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

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This book tells the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father.
July 07, 2015
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

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A story of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.
July 07, 2015
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Measure of A Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor

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Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz with his family, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story.
July 02, 2015
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Night

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Elie Wiesel's candid, horrific, autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.
July 01, 2015
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The Book Thief

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Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich during Nazi Germany, cannot resist the opportunity to steal books, which she shares with her new friends including the Jewish man hidden in her basement.
June 30, 2015
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Who Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat?

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A simple, mournful poem reminding readers that prior to the Nazi regime, the victims of the Holocaust went shopping, drank coffee, and wore hats just like everybody else.
June 24, 2015
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Friedrich

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A terrifying story of the destruction of a single Jewish family during the Holocaust.
June 24, 2015
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The Anne Frank Case: Simon Wiesenthal’s Search for the Truth

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After Holocaust deniers disrupt a theatre performance of The Diary of Anne Frank, Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal vows to prove the authenticity of Anne’s diary.
June 24, 2015
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
June 04, 2015
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The Whispering Town

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Based on a true story, this book is about neighbors in a small Danish fishing village who, during the Holocaust, shelter a Jewish family waiting to be ferried to safety in Sweden.
April 29, 2015
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Milkweed

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This book takes place in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of World War II—and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope and survival through the eyes of a young orphan.
March 03, 2015
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Passage to Freedom

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A portrait of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940, explains how he used his powers to assist thousands of Jews escape the Holocaust.
January 29, 2015
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Summer Reading

Monthly Featured Book

Each month a book from Books Matter is featured. Each Monthly Featured Book has educator and parent discussion guides to expand upon young people's learning from the book. Suggested activities help to facilitate discussions about identity and diversity, understanding and challenging bias and promoting social justice.

See Monthly Featured Books here.

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